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[99XJ]Brian
06-13-07, 11:30 PM
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/806ffb24a5f27010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Pretty interesting. I don't think I would want any of those!


PATH
06-14-07, 01:22 AM
I own a dog and so job no.9 is already on my vitae!

TexasGuy
06-14-07, 06:47 AM
It's all about Mike Row and Dirty Jobs.


Cypress
06-14-07, 07:18 AM
"Kansas Biology Teacher"

LOL.

Half of those don't sound too bad actually.

Cromulent
06-14-07, 07:40 AM
LOL

From the site:

'10. Orangutan-Pee Collector - Their work is noninvasive—for the apes, that is . . . "Have I been pissed on? Yes," says anthropologist Cheryl Knott of Harvard University. Knott is a pioneer of "noninvasive monitoring of steroids through urine sampling."'


Steroid monitoring? She could get a job with WADA.

scrapmetal
06-14-07, 09:29 AM
The Volcanologist sounds pretty cool to me.

TexasGuy
06-14-07, 09:41 AM
The Volcanologist sounds pretty cool to me.
till you accidentally have a 1200F piece of lava splat on you and then you'rerunning around screaming like somebody from a horror movie and then you burst into flames :p

x136
06-14-07, 09:47 AM
Turns out he thought he had to fill up the entire specimen cup.:eek:

That must've been an awkward conversation. I hope they at least gave the guy some extra money for his, uh, efforts.


Then, in 2004, came an eye-burning laser accident with an intern,Why can't people read warning labels? Sheesh! It's printed right on there: "Warning! Do not look into laser with remaining eye!"